So what should we do? Is it possible to get MinGW to change the license?
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Sean Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 24, 2012, at 11:13 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So I've come to the point where I have the WinAPI modules from > dsource.org and want to add them to druntime. > > > > Here are the issues, that need to be discussed before I can send a pull > request: > > > > 1. There is a number of version flags that are expected to be specified > to the compiler, which specifies the Windows version, Internet Explorer > version, winsock version and a bunch of other stuff. I suppose these will > go into the sc.ini under Windows, because those won't change too often and > are equivalent to linking with phobos (not necessary, but provided as a > default). > > > > 2. There are some static libraries, which are pragma(lib, ...) -ed > inside those modules, so those libraries will have to be included to the > DMD distribution. > > > > 3. They include MinGW copyright and header comments, which I don't know > if can be submitted to druntime as is and if they can be removed either. > > > > 4. They contain a special WindowsUnitTests version, which could probably > be replaced with a regular unittests or removed from the DMD distribution. > > > > 5. The package to put them is to be decided, because core.sys.windows > contains druntime-specific modules whic hare not to be mixed with WinAPI > modules. > > > > Please leave your comments regarding this. > > Maintainers of druntime: is this ok? > > The copyright issue is the only major concern for me. To be in druntime > it really needs the Boost license, which is almost definitely less strict > than the MinGW license. -- Bye, Gor Gyolchanyan.
